Metrics Slides Startup Writing 
TechEmpower
JULY 31, 2023
When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. What does the business do?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
They decide to wake up early to read the materials. In town board members also only scan it because they, too, have morning meetings before the board meeting starts. The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. The meeting starts.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 23, 2019
Image via Pixabay In my role as a new business advisor and occasional investor, I hear lots of people talking about their dreams of “someday” starting and running a new venture. They can talk with passion about their innovative new idea, and ask lots of questions, but never seem to really get started.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 26, 2022
For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. It’s up to you to keep all potential consequences in perspective, and don’t apply them as a lever to improve performance.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Based on my experience and data from the field, over seventy-five percent of new startups fail, even with venture backing. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them. Any startup with no patents, trade secrets, or other secret sauce is very high risk today.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 14, 2018
Whenever you write your deck and send it out I think you should actually think to yourself, “my competitors are probably going to read this one day and this will be forwarded widely” and if your response isn’t “so what!” There are a million ways to make graphics lighter or resize your file without a huge impact on the quality of the slides?—?after
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59).
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
260 
Let's personalize your content